Grey's Anatomy's Meg Marinis Joined the Show Right Out of College in 2006. Now She's Showrunner.
glamour.comGrey's Anatomy writer—and new showrunner—Meg Marinis is sitting in her office at Prospect Studios in Los Angeles during a brief break from shooting the seventh episode of season 20, which .
As the new head boss for the longest-running medical primetime drama, Marinis doesn't have much free time these days, thanks to the nonstop deadlines, as well as business and creative decisions that constantly need her input.
But when she takes a rare moment to reflect on the position she finds herself in—one that started 18 years ago as a college grad on the same studio lot for the same show—she points to her 12-year-old nephew to help illustrate the magnitude of her new job.“He sends me these screen grabs from his text messages with his 12-year-old girl friends, just freaking out about the show and freaking out that his aunt does this for a living," Marinis says. “And I realized, 'I don’t take it in enough…because I'm so in the day-to-day grind of like, ‘Okay, we’ve got to hit this deadline or that deadline.
We have to make sure I answer this question so people aren't at work until 10 p.m.'"Marinis says that moment, as well as when she saw members on the stage at this January's , was when it finally hit her. "I was like, ‘Oh wow, this thing is still so big.' And then you get nervous, like, ‘Oh my gosh, I’m in charge of it.' But you're grateful.
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